Washington.- A federal appeals court will hear arguments this week about the fate of thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States when they were minors and have been protected from deportation and allowed to work legally.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or DACA, has allowed beneficiaries to make their lives and pursue degrees in the United States.
Although the Obama Era initiative was intended to be a short-term fix until Congress reformed the outdated US immigration system.
The country continues waiting, and the system has continued to be increasingly dysfunctional, until international migration becomes more complex and the issue has become more politicized.
Because Congress is unwilling to act, battles over immigration policy have increasingly ended up in federal courts.
The current DACA lawsuit, filed in 2018 by Texas and six other Republican-controlled states, argues that the creation of the program represented an excess of presidential authority and imposed undue costs on the states.
The Department of Justice is defending DACA, joined by a group of other parties, including the State of New Jersey and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft are also supporting the effort to preserve DACA, noting that program recipients have contributed to the economy, arguing that presidents have the power to defer enforcement of immigration laws. .
Arguments in the case will be heard this Thursday in New Orleans by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
That court, which covers Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, is known for being one of the most aggressive and conservative in the country.
It upheld a partial ban on Mifepristone, an abortion drug, a ruling that the Supreme Court overturned.
The judges hearing the DACA challenge will consider three questions — whether the plaintiff states have shown that the program is costing them money, whether the Biden administration acted within its authority in 2022 when it sought to “preserve and fortify” DACA with a formal rule and whether the court, which blocked new applications for the program nationwide, should limit its ruling to the seven states that sued.
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